1git-annotate(1) 2=============== 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-annotate - Annotate file lines with commit information 7 8SYNOPSIS 9-------- 10'git annotate' [options] file [revision] 11 12DESCRIPTION 13----------- 14Annotates each line in the given file with information from the commit 15which introduced the line. Optionally annotates from a given revision. 16 17The only difference between this command and linkgit:git-blame[1] is that 18they use slightly different output formats, and this command exists only 19for backward compatibility to support existing scripts, and provide a more 20familiar command name for people coming from other SCM systems. 21 22OPTIONS 23------- 24include::blame-options.txt[] 25 26SEE ALSO 27-------- 28linkgit:git-blame[1] 29 30GIT 31--- 32Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite